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Was the sole inmate in Spandau Prison from 1966 until his death. The prison was demolished afterwards. Roberto Succo: 1988-05-23 Italy: Suicide by suffocating Serial killer Roy Buchanan: 1988-08-01 United States: Suicide by hanging American guitarist His death is still the subject of fierce debate. Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar: 1989 Saudi Arabia
Prisoners who died while held by a jurisdiction of the United States. For people of American nationality who died while in prison, see Category:American people who died in prison custody . Subcategories
Pages in category "American people who died in prison custody" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 442 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Contraband drugs and weapons also contributed to a third of deaths, including for 70 inmates who died of drug overdoses, said Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general.
Two inmates who passed away while in Alabama prisons allegedly had their bodies returned to their families with missing hearts or other organs, a lawsuit claims.. Brandon Clay Dotson, 43, died in ...
Sentenced to death in 1993, commuted to life imprisonment in 2014; died in 2019 of natural causes. Prisoner convicted of killing an inmate at USP Allenwood, sentenced to death in 1998, but re-sentenced to life in prison in 2014.
Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population. (Jails are short-term holding facilities in which many inmates have not been convicted; our study does not include deaths in prison.)
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]